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Vasyl Rachyba | |
Fullname: | Vasyl Dmyrovych Rachyba |
Birth Date: | 27 January 1982 |
Birth Place: | Dolyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Weight: | 880NaN0 |
Sport: | Wrestling |
Event: | Greco-Roman |
Club: | CSKA Kyiv |
Coach: | Yury Tsikolenko |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Vasyl Dmyrovych Rachyba (Ukrainian: Василь Дмитрович Рачиба; born January 27, 1982, in Dolyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) is an amateur Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category.[1] [2] He defeated Russia's Alan Khugayev for the gold medal in his respective division at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Germany.[3] Rachyba is also a member of the wrestling team for CSKA Kyiv, and is coached and trained by Yury Tsikolenko.[1]
Rachyba represented Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed for the men's 84 kg class. He defeated Tunisian wrestler and two-time Olympian Haykel Achouri in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Georgia's Vladimer Gegeshidze, with a three-set technical score (1–2, 3–0, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.[4]